3rd shifters, what are your duties?

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Sometimes I feel like I am a house keeper. Here is my list of things I do for the night. We have two cna's on duty for third shift, thats it. Oh, I also work in a CBRF assisted living. about 30 residents.

-I do about 30min if cleaning of public areas of unit
-Checks every 2 hours, toilet or change as needed
-AM cares on one person (scheduled) but sometimes more when ppl want to get up
-Blood Sugars and Nurse Set up Med passes
-Set table for Breakfast make sure kitchen sends up missing supplies
-Attend to emergencies and all that fun stuff (spent good chunk of last night packing a nose)
-Put away laundry (another aide does since I can't leave memory care)

I think thats all. It varies night to night. I get a lot of down time too. I usually bring a book or homework.

Thats pretty much my entire night. In addition to what I listed, I offer my patient a urinal every 2 hours and respond to any high pressure, low pressure alarms on the vent. My duties are usually pretty consistent.

i work in ltc/snf and on 11-7 we have to make 3 sets of rounds (change and reposition incont. residents, toliet those on tolieting sched., check in on the rest). we pass water pitchers to all residents, clean wheelchairs and walkers, a few each night. clean out the fridge. and in the morning depending what unit your working get some residents up and preform am adls (on two units you get 2 residents up each, another you get 5 up). and of course answer the call lights and charting.

31 years ago when i was a nursing assistant in a nursing home while i was an rn student, we had to collect up all the bedpans and urinals during our night shift (there was a schedule of which rooms to do this with), scrub them, sterilize them in a large steam sterilizer we had, and then return them to the patients who needed them and place the clean ones n the cupboard. we also washed wheelchairs. we also had to make sure that large lumps of bm was washed out of the linens that went to the laundry. sometimes we got so short of patient gowns that to "save" on linen we would drape a wet patient gown over a chair in the patient's room so it would at least be dry by the next round. that, of course, is unheard of today and is bad practice. but, we're talking about 30 years ago when you did what you had to do. no gloves then, kids. we had to wash our hands. my hands were often red and sore. i used to use a product called aquacarehp (the formula now is much different than it was then) to help sooth the burning pain in my skin from all the handwashing.

Getting residents ready/into bed, hs care, picking up their room as I go along
Showers (generally 1-2 at night and/or in the morning)
Checking the residents every 2 hrs....taking them to the restroom, making sure they are dry, changing their positions, etc
Answer call lights
Vital signs
Laundry....wash/dry/fold/put away (CNA's do the laundry where I work) I try to get all of the laundry done on my shift if I can...I know day shift is hectic
Help the nurse (if she needs it)...great learning experience
Clean the dining area, kitchenette, sitting (tv) room
Clean wheelchairs/walkers
Start getting residents up, dressed and ready to start their day
Charts
Give report and go home (or to school pending on the day)

Thats pretty much my entire night. In addition to what I listed, I offer my patient a urinal every 2 hours and respond to any high pressure, low pressure alarms on the vent. My duties are usually pretty consistent.

Hope this helped!

You're night sounds interesting. I didn't think CNA's could give meds like Reglan and do trach care. Do you work alone or is there an RN/LPN with you?

I work third shift in the ER and we have to:
Answer call lights
Put patients on bedpans
Apply splints
Draw blood
Run blood and urine tests
Assist RNs with Foleys and other tasks
Ekgs ekgs ekgs ekgs
stocking linen and rooms
cleaning beds and rooms
bringing patients back from the waiting room
emptying dirty linen
Assist physicians w/pelvic exams
Meet squads in rooms and settle patients in
Vital signs
Transporting patient when admitted
Transporting patient to CT and ultrasound
And the list goes on and on and on........